Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113), like his uncle Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79), was a man of well-rounded scholarly interests, including natural history. The...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Aristotle (c. 384-322 BCE)
"Utility is an impermanent thing: it changes according to circumstances."
From The Nicomachean Ethics (Book VIII, section 3, Bekker page 1156a) by Aristotle,...
(Gregory the Illuminator, 14th century mosaic from the Pammakaristos Church, Constantinople, via Creative Commons)
The reign of Constantine the Great is often seen as...
